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Storyville Global - 2020

Storyville Global: Season 6 - 7 Episode s

6x1 - The Heart of Nuba
February 15, 2020
For thirty years Omar al-Bashir the former president of Sudan, waged a brutal and bloody war on his own people. This programme filmed before al-Bashir was ousted, features Dr Tom Catena an American doctor and missionary who has been working in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan for over thirteen years, treating as many as 400 patients a day at the Mother of Mercy Hospital. We follow Dr Tom and his mostly local staff as they work tirelessly to save lives under the threat of daily bombardment during al-Bashir's regime.
6x2 - The Island and the Whales
February 22, 2020
The people of the Faroe Islands believe that pilot whale hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten to change the community and their way of life forever.
6x3 - Heartland
September 5, 2020
Over the last 25 years, more than 900 Thai women have come to the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, to marry Danish men. Filmed over ten years, this film follows Thai-Danish couples in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.
6x4 - Cuban Dreams
September 12, 2020
In a remote Cuban fishing village, where shops are empty and basic transportation is non-existent, everyone is utterly dependent on the sea and many have drowned trying to leave.
6x5 - Daphne: A Pen Too Sharp
September 20, 2020
On 16th October 2017, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in a car bomb attack close to her home. Her career focused on investigative reporting into government corruption and money laundering and her blog was read more than all of the country's newspapers combined. This documentary seeks to come closer to the truth about her death.
6x6 - Undercover in the Alt-Right
October 10, 2020
Over the course of a year, researcher Patrik Hermansson went deep undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, extracting damning information that runs all of the way to the highest level of authority in the US. And he caught it all on hidden camera.
6x7 - An Army of Sons
October 31, 2020
Syrian film-maker Talal Derki returns to his homeland, where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His award-winning film provides a very rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate, capturing the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born.

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